Lee Pace credited as playing...
Thranduil
- Thranduil: I offer you my help.
- Thorin Oakenshield: I am listening.
- Thranduil: I will let you go if you but return what is mine.
- Thorin Oakenshield: A favor for a favor...?
- Thranduil: You have my word, one King to another.
- Thorin Oakenshield: I would not trust Thranduil, the great King, to honor his word should the end of all days be upon us! You lack all honor! I have seen how you treat your friends. We came to you once, starving, homeless, seeking your help, but you turned your back. You turned away from the suffering of my people in the inferno that destroyed us!
- Thranduil: [reveals scars] Do not speak to ME of dragon fire! I know its wrath and ruin! I have faced the great serpents of the north!... I warned your grandfather what his greed would summon. He would not listen... You are just like him. So go, stay here and rot. One hundred years is a mere blink in the life of an elf! I'm patient! I can wait!
- Thranduil: Such is the nature of evil. Out there in the vast ignorance of the world it festers and spreads. A shadow that grows in the dark. A sleepless malice as black as the oncoming wall of night. So it ever was. So will it always be. In time all foul things come forth.
- Thranduil: [stares at Bilbo] I know you're there. Why do you linger in the shadows?
- [Bilbo thinks he's been found out...]
- Tauriel: [steps out from behind Bilbo] I was coming to report to you.
- Thranduil: I thought I ordered that nest to be destroyed not two moons past.
- Tauriel: We cleared the forest as ordered, my Lord, but more spiders keep coming up from the South. They are spawning in the ruins of Dol Guldur. If we could kill them at their source...
- Thranduil: That fortress lies beyond our borders. Keep our lands clear of those foul creatures. That is your task.
- Tauriel: And when we drive them off, what then? Will they not spread to other lands?
- Thranduil: Other lands are not my concern. The fortunes of the world will rise and fall, but here in this kingdom, we will endure.
- [Bilbo sneaks past him, Thranduil senses something and looks in Bilbo's direction but sees nothing]
- [questioning Thorin]
- Thranduil: [to Thorin] Where does your journey end? A quest to reclaim a homeland, and slay a dragon!... I suspect something more prosaic. Attempted burglary, or something of that kind. You seek that which would bestow upon you the right to rule: the Arkenstone!
- Thranduil: Legolas said you fought well today. He's grown very fond of you.
- Tauriel: I assure you, my Lord, Legolas thinks of me as not more than a captain of the guard.
- Thranduil: Perhaps he did once. Now I'm not so sure.
- Tauriel: I do not think that you would allow your son to pledge himself to a lowly Silvan elf.
- Thranduil: No... You are right, I would not. Still, he cares about you. Do not give him hope where there is none.
- Thranduil: You have found a way in. You seek that which would bestow upon you, the right to rule. The King's Jewel. The Arkenstone. It is precious to you beyond measure, I understand that. The gems in the Mountain that I, too, desire... White gems, of pure starlight. I offer you my help. I will let you go, if you but return what is mine.